Semantic Web is a term coined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director Tim Berners-Lee.[1] It describes methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning - or "semantics" - of information on the World Wide Web.[2]

The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.